u/loch-jess

Wallpaper and flooring is all done throughout the house!!! I added some baseboards as well. The green living room.l is actually a beautiful fabric mod podged to cardstock paper for sturdiness.

Next up for the interior is molding, window frames and plastic windows, ceiling wallpaper, covering all of the exposed edges and finishing the inside of the front doors.

It's too late to wire up the whole house, so I'm going to look for rechargeable or battery operated lights. I have a brick kit coming for the exterior. I tried taking some pictures from the POV of a doll but it was tricky lol

This is the most fun and engaging hobby I've had in years. I was so obsessed with dollhouses as a kid and it feels meaningful that I've come back to again, this time as an adult with tools and money.

The best part about this dollhouse is that it's actually more special than I thought it was!!! I remember it showing up at my house when I was young. I don't remember hearing a back story on where it came from, I just know that it was there one day. I've been posting pictures of the progress on Facebook and my grandma saw it. She told me that she actually built it from a kit for my mom when she was a little girl!! This was in the 70s. I guess when my mom outgrew it, it ended up in storage at my great grandparents house. When they were moving into a nursing home in their final years, my grandma found the dollhouse while packing boxes and brought it to my mom for us to play with. This dollhouse was already special because its been in my life for so long, but knowing that it was actually my mom's and I get to bring it back to life makes it much more important to me.

When the main heavy work is done, I plan to add some miniature objects that relate to my family. I got a tiny mailbox and plan to put the digits of my moms birth month and day. I want to add tiny family photos of the people in our family who aren't with us anymore. Birthdays, names and other references thrown around like Easter eggs in miniature form.

Thank you for reading and keeping in touch with my dollhouse journey!!!!

Hi everyone! I've been working on this dollhouse in random sections. Here is my progress since I added the kitchen wallpaper.

I ordered the red magic brick kit for the exterior. My baseboards are painted and ready to glue. After each room has wallpaper and flooring, I'm going to cover the ceilings.

Will update again soon!!

Working on my childhood dollhouse. I found this adorable white toddler bed at the Great American Dollhouse museum store in Danville, KY. That place is an absolute dream.

When I got home, I grabbed a basic kitchen sponge. The kind with the soft yellow and green scrubbing bits. I cut the green part off and then cut my yellow piece to fit the bed. Next, I wrapped the sponge with some masking tape. Using matte mod podge, i tightly wrapped some scrap fabric (it was a scrub shirt I found at the thrift) like wrapping a Christmas present, applying mod podge to the seams generously. I only added it to the bottom of the mattress. After drying overnight, here's the finished mattress!!

Thank you for reading

Wallpaper - I picked some cute scrapbook paper, measured and cut them it to fit each wall. I did the same with a few pieces of large cardstock paper so I could first glue the wallpaper to it before attaching to the walls.

i used a foam brush and Aleene's quick drying tacky glue to each piece of scrapbook paper to it's matching cardstock base. I used a scrapy tool to flatten it out. Using books and some plastic sheets, i laid the wallpaper/cardstock combo underneath so they could dry flat for a while, then letting them out for air every once and a while.

Using the same glue and a new foam brush, i attached each section to the walls starting from the back and adding more glue as I went along in some spots. I patted some glue into the walls and on the back of the paper first. Using the same scrapy tool, I flattened it out as much as humanly possible and pushed some books against them to set for a while.

After I made sure the wallpaper was secure, I took my foam brush and spread a nice layer of matte mod podge on each wall, making sure to get the edges and corners where the wallpaper meets the wood. It was very satisfying.

Flooring - i found some thin unfinished plank sheets and walnut colored gel wood stain at the craft store. Using a foam brush, i coated the planks in 2 layers of stain and let it dry completely for a day or so. Using my xacto knife, I was able to cut each plank still attached to the sheet to fit my floors. I added the tacky glue to the bottom of the plank sheet and directly to the floor, applied the plank sheet and set with books. When that was dry, i went over it with glossy mod podge.

Not sure if you guys can tell, but there are windows! I found some cuttable plastic in the stained glass aisle of the craft store and found that they are perfect for making your own window panes. Luckily for me, the shutters that I couldnt remove hold each window in perfectly. I might get some white tape to make them look a little more realistic.

Thanks for reading and checking out my dollhouse progression!!

The last 5 photos show what's currently going on with my house. I think some of the white paint has stained the wood, so I'm going to keep sanding down as much as I can until it's completely smooth and then proceed with painting. (Should I use interior latex paint all over?)

This is my first dollhouse renovation project ever and I love it. I started with multiple layers of Citristrip before wrapping it in plastic wrap. Lots of time scraping and reapplying. I then went in with some harsher paint stripper on the tougher spots. I got my fiance's handheld sander and have been working on it all day today.

I'm super excited because at first, I didn't think it would be possible to get it to where it is now.

He told me he wanted to set up his phone to take a picture of us in front of a giant tree, catching me completely by surprise. It was absolutely beautiful.

Trinity's reaction to Gabriel and Bea was so funny